@genervt  
Glad you know what I was referencing.

@Ferrotter  
Trixie descended from heaven to save us all.
 
@Background Pony #FE99  

No, no, no. It should be
 
Jack Pot: Celestia never told you what happened to your father.
 
Trixie: She told Trixie enough, she told me you killed him!
 
Jackpot: No, I am your father!
 
Trixie: Nooooooo!!!

Can’t be. Trixie was sired by the Magichlorians.

@TheAntiCat  
I don’t think you qualify as a bit character anymore after you help save the world.

a surprise to be sure but an unwelcomed one

@Mikie  
It’s not like a million TV shows haven’t suddenly had a character’s long-lost father/mother/sibling/cousin/garbage man show up out of nowhere and we get a nice but trite story about the importance of family and forgiveness.
 
Isn’t it nice to know guys, that FiM suddenly dropped Twilight’s brother out of thin air but Trixie gets some setup? Ya know, Trixie? That bit character used for ego-fueled laughs?
 
Q U A L I T Y

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@Mikie  
jim tweet  

@Chuy Ryu  
Well yeah, but was there something in the show that confirmed Trixie not knowing who her dad is? If there was that bit flew past me.

@Mikie  
happens in real life

Could somebody tell me how Trixie doesn’t know who her dad is? My memory is long gone on this sort of thing.

You know, I can actually see Trixie believing such a story. Her ego has the size of a moon and she would certainly love to brag about have a miraculous birth ala Anakin Skywalker (or Jesus).

She’s not the Messiah, she’s a very naughty filly!

Jackpot: Trixie, I am your father!  
Trixie: No, that’s not true. That’s impossible.  
Jackpot: And Lyra Heartstrings is your sister!  
Trixie: No, that’s not true. That’s…improbable.  
Jackpot: And, as a child, I raised the Ursa Minor that later became the mother of the Ursa Minor that attacked Ponyville.  
(Later)  
Jackpot: And magic, that’s just a bacteria in your blood that produces a reality warping current you can transmit through your horn.  
Trixie: Look, if you aren’t going to take this serious I’m out.

@bigladiesman  
Yeah, Steven is the only one fabulous enough to be Herod.

@Background Pony #C931  
HA!
 
For those not in the know, that’s a reference from O Brother, Where Art Thou?.

@Wolfcho  
They’ve only done that a few times.

Usually it’s lazy to make a parent and a child look like clones of each other.

 
That ain’t your daddy, Lulamoon. Your daddy got hit by a train.

@Crystalis  
Then Trixie can surpass herself:
 
[b]Alright THE GREAT AND PORWEFUL TRIXIE will die!  
Just watch THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE die!  
See how, see how THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE dies!  
Oh, just watch THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE die![/b]
 
From the magical, musical show Trixie Superstar, soon on the best Town Hall Squares of Equestria! Feat. Starlight Glimmer as Judas, Pinkemena Diane Pie as Pontius Pilate and the special guest star STEVEN MAGNET AS HEROD!

The way I see it:
 
Jackpot is as we know a “relatively” famous magician, He’s and Trixies mother had a run for awhile which lead to her birth. Her father however still preferring the allure of the limelight didn’t stick for very long. Leaving her mother to have to take care of them. There were two other things he left behind though, A worn out magic for foals box, and a picture of him. Trixie grew up with a very low self-esteem and a hard life feeling that she and her father disappearance was related to her not being good enough.
 
Trixie practiced endlessly with the stuff in the magic box in hopes to one day be good enough to take care of her and and her mother, while also hoping that it’d make her be closer to her father, Maybe one day her father would see or hear about a new great and powerful magic, maybe one day he’d have visit.
 
But that’s just a theory.

@Magic Nova  
That’s impossible!

@Background Pony #64CA  
Someone send that to Big Jim in case they forgot.